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EFSA is conducting pan-European dietary exposure and risk assessments related to actual levels of pesticide residues in food commodities. These assessments use the pesticide occurrence data generated under the official monitoring programs of Member States, the consumption data from EFSA’s comprehensive food consumption database and pesticide-specific information such as processing factors. Currently no harmonised list of processing factors is available within Europe and worldwide.
EFSA therefore launched the project “Database of processing techniques and processing factors compatible with the EFSA food classification and description system FoodEx 2”. The main overall objective of the project is to develop a database of processing types and processing factors compatible with the EFSA food classification and description system FoodEx 2.
On 26 November 2018, EFSA published a series of 3 external scientific reports as part of this project. Each report corresponds to one of the three objectives:
– Objective 1: Compendium of Representative Processing Techniques investigated in regulatory studies for pesticides
– Objective 2: Linking the processing techniques investigated in regulatory studies with the EFSA food classification and description system FoodEx2
– Objective 3: European database of processing factors for pesticides in food
The coding system (objective 2) and the database (objective 3) are also provided as Excel spreadsheets.
To download:
Appendix A -FoodEx 2 Coding system
EU processing factors database
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